Final Report Summary - GLOBALMIDDLEEAST (The Middle East Metropolises in Times of Globalisation: Territorial Recomposition, Regional Competition, Global Insertion)
Dr Leïla Vignal is a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow attached to the Oriental Institute, Oxford University. Her office is located in the Middle East Centre (MEC) of St Antony's College, whose director is her mentor, Dr Eugene Rogan.
During the last 12 months of her fellowship, Leïla Vignal asked for a three-months suspension of the fellowship, on family grounds. She has been granted this suspension, and therefore completed her time as a Marie Curie fellow at the MEC at the end of June 2010.
Progress toward objective
Since the last mid-term report, Leïla Vignal has progressed in her different projects as follows:
She has been working on completing the data and documentation collection needed for her project, which deals with regionalisation and globalisation in the Middle East. She has been three times in the Middle East to do field research (April 2009 in Amman, December - January 2010 in Cairo, March 2010 in Damascus). At the end of her fellowship, she has collected a unique set of documentation on this subject, based on very varied original sources, and she is starting to exploit this documentation in order to put forward publications on the subject of her project.
She has also progressed on the writing of the two books publishers have been offered to publish, based on her PhD (see mid-term report). At the end of her fellowship, she is nearing the completion of her book on Damascus (Territoires de la mondialisation: Damas à l'heure globale, Beyrouth / Damas: Editions de l'Institut Français du Proche-Orient). Her book on Cairo still needs a few months of input (Global Cairo, une métropole dans la mondialisation, Paris: Editions des Presses Universitaires de France.
Results for the second year
During the second year of her fellowship, he has presented pieces of her research in several international conferences:
1) In April 2009, Amman, Jordan (Organiser: Leeds University, United Kingdom). Paper: The new territories of tourism in Egypt: a global frontier?
2) In July 2009, British Middle Eastern Association (BRISMES) Annual Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom. Paper: Global Damascus: Global and transnational processes as engines of metropolitan transformations
3) In January 2010: Neue Kulturgeographie Annual Conference (Organiser: Mainz University, Germany) Paper: L'espace des flux : ou comment les nouvelles mobilités bousculent l'analyse géographique
4) In July 2010, World Congress For Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES, Barcelona. Paper: Consuming the city: New actors, interests and struggles in the making of 'globalised' Damascus.
She has planned to take part in two international scientific settings next fall:
5) 6 to 10 Octobre 2010, International Workshop 'The material and symbolic meaning of architecture and infrastructure in the Gulf region' (Organiser: the Zentrum vor Moderner Orient, Berlin). Paper: The Dubai model in Damascus: a strategy for urban renewal?
6) 20 to 25 November 2010, Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, San Diego. Paper: Cairo: a new 'tale of two cities'? On urban dualism and two-tier societies.
In addition, she has published three papers:
(1) 2010, The new territories of tourism in Egypt: a local-global frontier?, Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, article 509, URL: http://cybergeo.revues.org/23324(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
(2) Vignal L., 2010, 'Reforming Egypt? From the association agreement to the European neighbourhood policy, 15 years of EU / Egypt cooperation', Working paper, RAMSES European Network of Excellence, University of Oxford
(3) 2010, Review of 'Histories of city and dtate in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800' by Nelida Fuccaro (Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Reviews in History, the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Training activities / transfer of knowledge activities / integration
The insertion of Leïla Vignal within the research community in Oxford has been successful.
She has co-convened the fall 2009 seminar series of MEC that were focusing on 'The Middle East in a global crisis'. She has presented her research in one of the sessions of this seminar series (30 October 2009. Paper: 'Egypt and Syria in the global economic crisis: A comparative reflection').
On 18 June 2010, she has been part of the organisation of a one-day international workshop discussing 'Migrations in the Gulf: From exception to normality?', an event brought together by both MEC, the International Migration Institute (Queen Elisabeth House), and the Maison Française d'Oxford.
Leïla Vignal has also undertaken teaching activities within Oxford University. She taught an Option course of the Master of Philosophy of Modern Middle Eastern Studies (Department of Oriental Studies), discussing 'Cities and societies in the Middle East'. She has also supervised a Master thesis, entitled 'Of policy entrepreneurship and path dependency: EU foreign policy-making toward the Mediterranean' (Department of International Relations).
Finally, Leïla Vignal has taken steps to be inserted in the international community of researchers on the Middle East: she is now member of the United Kingdom-based BRISMES, of the United States-based MESA, of the Germany-based Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO).
Leïla Vignal has therefore had a productive two years as a Marie Curie fellow at MEC. Before the completion of her fellowship, she has been a successful candidate to two applications she prepared while in Oxford. She has been elected to a permanent academic position at the University Rennes-2 in France (Maître de Conférences en Géographie, Chaire d'Excellence CNRS). She has also been successful in the application for research funding she put though the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la recherche) in order to develop further the project she started in Oxford as a Mare Curie fellow (from an individual project to a collective research project).
During the last 12 months of her fellowship, Leïla Vignal asked for a three-months suspension of the fellowship, on family grounds. She has been granted this suspension, and therefore completed her time as a Marie Curie fellow at the MEC at the end of June 2010.
Progress toward objective
Since the last mid-term report, Leïla Vignal has progressed in her different projects as follows:
She has been working on completing the data and documentation collection needed for her project, which deals with regionalisation and globalisation in the Middle East. She has been three times in the Middle East to do field research (April 2009 in Amman, December - January 2010 in Cairo, March 2010 in Damascus). At the end of her fellowship, she has collected a unique set of documentation on this subject, based on very varied original sources, and she is starting to exploit this documentation in order to put forward publications on the subject of her project.
She has also progressed on the writing of the two books publishers have been offered to publish, based on her PhD (see mid-term report). At the end of her fellowship, she is nearing the completion of her book on Damascus (Territoires de la mondialisation: Damas à l'heure globale, Beyrouth / Damas: Editions de l'Institut Français du Proche-Orient). Her book on Cairo still needs a few months of input (Global Cairo, une métropole dans la mondialisation, Paris: Editions des Presses Universitaires de France.
Results for the second year
During the second year of her fellowship, he has presented pieces of her research in several international conferences:
1) In April 2009, Amman, Jordan (Organiser: Leeds University, United Kingdom). Paper: The new territories of tourism in Egypt: a global frontier?
2) In July 2009, British Middle Eastern Association (BRISMES) Annual Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom. Paper: Global Damascus: Global and transnational processes as engines of metropolitan transformations
3) In January 2010: Neue Kulturgeographie Annual Conference (Organiser: Mainz University, Germany) Paper: L'espace des flux : ou comment les nouvelles mobilités bousculent l'analyse géographique
4) In July 2010, World Congress For Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES, Barcelona. Paper: Consuming the city: New actors, interests and struggles in the making of 'globalised' Damascus.
She has planned to take part in two international scientific settings next fall:
5) 6 to 10 Octobre 2010, International Workshop 'The material and symbolic meaning of architecture and infrastructure in the Gulf region' (Organiser: the Zentrum vor Moderner Orient, Berlin). Paper: The Dubai model in Damascus: a strategy for urban renewal?
6) 20 to 25 November 2010, Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference, San Diego. Paper: Cairo: a new 'tale of two cities'? On urban dualism and two-tier societies.
In addition, she has published three papers:
(1) 2010, The new territories of tourism in Egypt: a local-global frontier?, Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, article 509, URL: http://cybergeo.revues.org/23324(s’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
(2) Vignal L., 2010, 'Reforming Egypt? From the association agreement to the European neighbourhood policy, 15 years of EU / Egypt cooperation', Working paper, RAMSES European Network of Excellence, University of Oxford
(3) 2010, Review of 'Histories of city and dtate in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800' by Nelida Fuccaro (Cambridge University Press, 2009), in Reviews in History, the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Training activities / transfer of knowledge activities / integration
The insertion of Leïla Vignal within the research community in Oxford has been successful.
She has co-convened the fall 2009 seminar series of MEC that were focusing on 'The Middle East in a global crisis'. She has presented her research in one of the sessions of this seminar series (30 October 2009. Paper: 'Egypt and Syria in the global economic crisis: A comparative reflection').
On 18 June 2010, she has been part of the organisation of a one-day international workshop discussing 'Migrations in the Gulf: From exception to normality?', an event brought together by both MEC, the International Migration Institute (Queen Elisabeth House), and the Maison Française d'Oxford.
Leïla Vignal has also undertaken teaching activities within Oxford University. She taught an Option course of the Master of Philosophy of Modern Middle Eastern Studies (Department of Oriental Studies), discussing 'Cities and societies in the Middle East'. She has also supervised a Master thesis, entitled 'Of policy entrepreneurship and path dependency: EU foreign policy-making toward the Mediterranean' (Department of International Relations).
Finally, Leïla Vignal has taken steps to be inserted in the international community of researchers on the Middle East: she is now member of the United Kingdom-based BRISMES, of the United States-based MESA, of the Germany-based Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO).
Leïla Vignal has therefore had a productive two years as a Marie Curie fellow at MEC. Before the completion of her fellowship, she has been a successful candidate to two applications she prepared while in Oxford. She has been elected to a permanent academic position at the University Rennes-2 in France (Maître de Conférences en Géographie, Chaire d'Excellence CNRS). She has also been successful in the application for research funding she put though the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la recherche) in order to develop further the project she started in Oxford as a Mare Curie fellow (from an individual project to a collective research project).